‘There is no second wave coming’: Top Trump adviser says coronavirus numbers will not peak again

‘There are some hot spots. We’re on it. We know how to deal with this stuff now’

One of president Donald Trump’s White House advisers has claimed that there will be no second wave of coronavirus in the US.

“There is no second wave coming. It’s just hot spots”, Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump told CNBC.

“They send in CDC teams, we’ve got the testing procedures, we’ve got the diagnostics, we’ve got the PPE. And so I really think it’s a pretty good situation,” he added.

The comments come only a day after White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told CNN that the administration is preparing for a possible second wave of the disease in the fall.

“We are filling the stockpile in anticipation of a possible problem in the fall. We are doing everything we can beneath the surface, working as hard as we possibly can,” Mr Navarro told the outlet.

“You prepare for what can possibly happen. I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but of course you prepare,” he added.

At least 23 US states across the country are registering a rise in newly reported cases compared to the previous week.

Florida became the seventh state to hit 100,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday according to the state department of health.

Most of the areas reporting surging numbers of cases have not previously seen a peak and fall so this statistically does not count as a resurgence of cases, but a continued increase.

“Actually, I think nationwide the positivity rate is still quite low, well under 10%,” Mr Kudlow said.

“There are some hot spots. We’re on it. We know how to deal with this stuff now, we’ve come a long way from last winter,” he insisted.

Health experts have said that current spikes may likely be the cause of states reopening businesses amid the first wave of the virus.

Covid-19 has infected at least 2,300,000 people across the US and caused the death of more than 120,000 Americans, according to data from The Johns Hopkins University.

Worldwide there have been 8.9 million cases of coronavirus and 466,000 deaths.

Donald Trump told supporters at his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday that he asked for Covid-19 testing to be slowed down because there were so many positive cases being found in the United States.

He also suggested the number of testing being done is the reason the US is the leading country in the world in terms of number of infections and deaths.